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Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Celeron N4100

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-4790K

Rank 2 - 30 %

Intel Celeron N4100

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-4790K

Rank 2 - 29 %

Intel Celeron N4100

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

1,387

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

335

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

4,674

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,034

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

411 cb

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

153 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

1,073

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

394

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

1,982 cb

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

391 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

4,001

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

1,385

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 4600

400

Intel UHD Graphics 600

134

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

2,311

4C / 4T · 1.10 GHz

664

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

169 cb

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

71 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

854 cb

4C / 4T · 2.40 GHz

189 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group	Intel Core i 4000 (DC) (2)	Intel Celeron J4000/N4000/N5000 (11)
Architecture	Devils Canyon S	Gemini Lake
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1150	BGA 1090
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Celeron N5100

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	4.00 GHz	1.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.40 GHz	2.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.20 GHz	2.40 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 4600	Intel UHD Graphics 600
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.25 GHz	0.20 - 0.70 GHz
CUs / Shader	20 / 160	12 / 96
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	8 GB
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s) DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 16	2.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
TDP	88 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		4.8 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-4790K	Intel Celeron N4100
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q2/2014	Q4/2017
Release price	310 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

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Intel Core i7-4790K
4C / 8T · 4.00 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Celeron N4100
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 2.40 GHz

★★★★★